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its issue has been largely due to the illness of M. Duraud, who has 

 charge of tlie work lu its complete form ; but now that it is in the 

 hands of the printer it is to be hoped that no further delay will 

 ensue. The period covered by the Supplement is from 1886 to 

 1895 inclusive, a period of great activity m botanic pubhcation, 

 and the large number of names included will make the forthcoming 

 volume of great interest. 



We have received the Reports of the Botanical Exchange Club 

 for 1896 and 1897, from which we hope to make some extracts at 

 an early date. 



The Annals of Botany for September contains an interesting 

 and important paper by Mrs. D. H. Scott and Miss Ethel Sargant, 

 " On the Development of Arum, macuhitum from the seed." 



Messrs. Groves have undertaken to edit a new edition of 

 Babiugton's Manual. The book will consist almost entirely of 

 Babingtou's own work as indicated in his interleaved copy which 

 was "written up " until August, 1891, with the necessary alterations 

 of name and the addition of undoubtedly new species. 



We have omitted to notice the handsome volume on The Yew- 

 trees of Great Britain and Ireland, by Dr. John Lowe, which Messrs. 

 Macmillan sent us some time since (8vo, pp. viii, 269 ; price 10s. 6d. 

 net). The author gives a very full account of our historic yew 

 trees, and has ransacked general literature for references to the 

 yew, with interesting results. The chapter devoted to the history 

 and use of bows is one of the most instructive. The botanical 

 account of the varieties of yew might have been a little fuller, and 

 the etymology of the word might have been further elucidated ; 

 but the book is an excellent example of its kind, and its attractive- 

 ness is much enhanced by some forty admirable illustrations. 



We have received a copy of Mr. H. C. Hart's Flora of Donegal, 

 which we hope to notice in our next issue. 



We learn that our contributor Mr. S. T. Dunn has been appointed 

 Secretary to the Director of Kew Gardens. 



Those who have gardens and who are not already acquainted 

 with Mr. Robinson's English Flower Garden (Murray : royal 8vo, 

 cloth, pp. xii, 832 ; price 15s.) will do well to secure the new (sixth) 

 edition of this handsome and standard work which has lately 

 appeared. It is not too much to say that the work is encyclopaedic ; 

 the first part contains the fullest information about the management 

 of gardens of various kinds and at different seasons of the year, 

 with descriptions of various flower gardens scattered up and down 

 the country ; the second part gives a descriptive list, alphabetically 

 arranged, of " the flowers, flowering shrubs and trees, evergreens 

 and hardy ferns for the open-air flower garden in the British Isles, 

 for their cultivation and the positions most suitable for them in 

 gardens." Mr. Robinson has done more tlian any one to bring 

 about a reformation of taste in matters horticultural ; and he writes 

 as an enthusiast possessed of common sense. We must not forget 

 to add that the volume is profusely and admirably illustrated ; the 

 views of the various gardens described are especially beautiful. 



